Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration - PGDip (Pub Admin) 2025/26 (Online Mode)

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Please pay at any branch of the People’s Bank Island-wide using the usual deposit slip. Fill in the slip using the following information and your personal information. Please keep a photocopy/scanned copy of the slip with you before providing it to the university.

Account Number: 318531200003
Account Name:
Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo

Please follow the instructions given below.

Those who are unable to pay the application fee to the Bank, they can pay the application fee using the online payment (Pay Online) method of the University of Colombo.

• Please select “Application Fee – Faculty of Graduate Studies” for the Fee Type
• Select Visa or Master.
• Enter your Name, NIC (National Identity Card Number) or Passport Number and LKR 3000/=(Local Students)/ 40 USD (Foreign Students) as the Amount.
• Type the account number 318531200003 for Payment Reference. Then click the verify button.
• Submit your information.
• Check and confirm your details.
• Enter your card details and proceed .

You should submit the online payment confirmation receipt instead of payment slip in addition to the requested documents as mentioned in the advertisement.

The University of Colombo, as part of an ongoing process of conducting courses to meet the demands of the changing times, is calling applications for the intake for the year 2025 of Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration – PGDip (Pub Admin)

The public sector, a key player in the process of socio-economic development of a country, is managed by the public sector professionals. Program of PGDip (Pub Admin) has been designed to enhance their skills and capacities for the daunting task of managing public investments and personnel. The courses are designed as online learning programs so that the public sector professionals, who aspire to advance their career in local, provincial and national levels of public administration, can follow them from any part of the country. The program encourages them to explore theory and practice in both policy analysis and public management that need a mix of skills in order to create career opportunities as managers, analysts and consultants.

The program would not only facilitate public sector managers to gain advanced knowledge but also help them to put new found knowledge and expertise to practice immediately in their own working environment. The contribution of such officers to enhance the level of efficiency of the public sector delivery and execution of infrastructure and human capital development projects would be the expected outcome of the program.

The study program provides a broad-based education that will equip the public sector professionals with the necessary new knowledge and key transferable skills to begin or enhance their career in public administration . The course is underpinned by a variety of teaching and learning methods. The objective is to develop and foster self-reliance in analysis and problem solving and to provide with the public sector professionals the confidence to seek solutions to problems.